The month of May brought a 10th consecutive month of decline for the export value of rubber products, while import value rose for the first time in half a year, according to records collated by the Japan Rubber Manufacturers Association. Sourced from Trade Statistics of Japan, the records show that the value of exported rubber products for May was 63.07...
Production and shipments of rubber goods in Japan remain in low gear. According to Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, the shipment value of rubber goods in May 2016 decreased by 4.6 percent year on year to 164.5 billion yen ($1.57 billion), the 11th consecutive month of year-on-year decline. Production and shipments of major rubber goods such as tires,...
Rubber belt production for May totaled 2,003 tons in terms of new-rubber volume, down 3.6 percent from the same month of the previous year, while shipments were valued at 5.6 billion yen ($53.01 million), up 0.6 percent from the previous May. It was the 13th consecutive month of decline in production volume and the first year-on-year increase in shipment value...
Tokai Carbon Co. Ltd. (TYO:5301) announced on July 13 that it will increase the price at which it sells carbon black by 6.5 yen per kilogram for deliveries beginning Aug. 1. The change will apply to all varieties of carbon black the company sells in Japan. In its announcement, Tokai Carbon explained that the price of crude oil used to...
According to data collated by the Synthetic Rubber Industry Association of Japan, synthetic rubber production for April 2016 totaled 125,700 tons, a year-on-year decline of 4.6 percent. It reflects the slump that has occurred with domestic manufacturing of automotive rubber parts and general industrial rubber products. Outside of NBR, which had a 10.3 percent increase in production volume, with 9,398...
The Japan Automobile Manufacturers Association (JAMA) announced that automobile production volume in Japan for May 2016 totaled 656,814 units, an increase of 1.7 percent compared to the same month of the previous year and the first year-on-year increase in two months. Looking at production volume by vehicle type, passenger cars totaled 554,070 units, up 2.8 percent for the first increase...
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